Sistemas agroflorestais : um caminho para agricultura sustentável à luz da cultura camponesa / Agroforestry systems : a path for sustainable agriculture under the light of peasant culture

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2011

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The central issue approached in our work is the constitution of agroforestry systems (AFSs) under the farmers point of view within their family practices. Our objective is to analyze to what extent the peasant culture structures the practices and principles of agroforestry systems. The methodological path built here unveils the path traced by research agents, thus capturing the narrators experiences. It is our understanding that family practices along these families path result from the dialectic relationship between situations described from a habitus which is concretely updated through the specific logic of a specific practice, such as in the case of agroforestry systems. The research was carried out at two areas in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, one of family farmers at the northern coast, and another of family farmers settled in the "19 de Setembro" settlement in Guaíba. We chose the oral narrative method, and used testimony as our research instrument. Complementarily, location maps of the areas and of the distances between areas at the regions, tracing of family paths, mind maps, as well as bibliographic and secondary-data surveys were elaborated. We present the impacts of agricultural modernization to the comprehension of the paths traced by these farmers and the role played by agroforestry systems in the pursuit of another agriculture, and are thus able to reinforce the peasant culture marks in the dynamics among family, work and production, in the multiple cropping system, in the nonagricultural activities, in the income obtained directly or indirectly through these activities, in the paths traced, and in the mind maps with their explanations. We then discuss the issues related to food and health, to the labor of men and women, to the importance of the fairs, to the meaning of social organization for the participation in agricultural cooperatives, associations, networks, and to the mediation process. From these analyses we discover the existence of the agroforestry habitus, which confirms itself in the configuration of practices evolving from socio-environmental problems and marks of the peasant culture. It is something that cannot be explained in a rational form, but that does exist; its rationality goes beyond our comprehension, its logic is singular to the social-historical situation. Thus, we may understand why some families that go through the same mediation process do not carry on with the practice, and why they understand the agroforestry system as a life system

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agricultura familiar mediação assentamentos rurais camponeses family farms mediation rural settlement peasants

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